Combining this with poor sales growth results in a dismal outlook for earnings 3) the pressure on earnings will continue to hurt capital spending, which is usually just
a magnified image of earnings, 4) the same factors will continue to raise default rates, causing earnings problems and debt downgrades among banks and financial companies, 5) earnings shortfalls will also lead to continued job cutbacks, with the unemployment rate rising to at least 5.5 % (indeed, once the unemployment rate has advanced by 0.5 % from its lows, it has never reversed until rising by least 1.5 % off those lows).
Astronomers exploit this property of space to use the clusters as a zoom lens to
magnify the images of far - more - distant galaxies that otherwise would be too faint to be seen.
Astronomer Tiantian Yuan at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia and colleagues found the new record - holder thanks to a closer cluster of galaxies, which acted as a gravitational lens that helped astronomers produce two
magnified images of A1689B11 (SN: 3/10/12, p. 4).
That effect helped astronomers produce two
magnified images of the galaxy in different positions (insets within this artist's illustration).
Sitting at a console, the surgeon views a highly
magnified image of the surgical site.
The cluster's immense gravitational field
magnifies the image of galaxies far behind it, in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.
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Magnified images of colony region (left panels) and contact area (right panels).
Infection Prevention and Control specialists observed that showing
magnified images of bacteria found on things common in the health care environment like a mouse pad or work station, even a person's hand, swayed workers in four patient care units to do a better job of cleaning their hands.
During each visit, workers would be shown images from a compilation of 12
magnified images of bacteria to demonstrate what it would like it under a microscope.
If scientists can line up a quasar almost exactly behind a much closer galaxy, they are able to see not one quasar but two or four
magnified images of the same quasar — a gravitational lens.
The top right inset shows
a magnified image of a small area in the centre of the ice crystal.
A magnified image of ascorbic acid crystals won the 1994 grand prize in Polaroid's British photomicrography awards.
«The neural networks we tested — three publicly available neural nets and one that we developed ourselves — were able to determine the properties of each lens, including how its mass was distributed and how much
it magnified the image of the background galaxy,» said the study's lead author Yashar Hezaveh, a NASA Hubble postdoctoral fellow at KIPAC.
When the observer, the lens, and the distant light source are precisely aligned, the observer sees an Einstein ring: a perfect circle of light that is the projected and greatly
magnified image of the distant light source.
Astronomer Fritz Zwicky discovered dark matter and predicted that foreground galaxies could
magnify the images of more distant objects.
The astronomers measured the angular separation between the three
magnified images of the galaxy in the Hubble photos.
In this new discovery, the lensing power of the mammoth galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, produced three
magnified images of the same galaxy.
This is
a magnified image of a new thermoelectric material discovered by University of Houston researchers.
Fredrik Lanner (right) of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and his student Alvaro Plaza Reyes examine
a magnified image of an human embryo that they used to attempt to create genetically modified healthy human embryos.
The white rectangle outlines the region magnified in panels G - I (G — I)
A magnified image of FFPE prostate cancer tissue sections from patient VP62 (XMRV - SO, DAPI, and CEP8 - SA, respectively).
Chadwick's Viral Landscapes (1989 - 90), made at the height of the Aids epidemic, connect the changes in her body with those of the wave - shattered shoreline, superimposing outsize photographs with
magnified images of the artist's cellular tissue in a sweeping panorama of time and tide.
Not exact matches
Will somebody please explain why these actions should «kick in» when bank reserves continue to decline, bank credit no longer bears any relationship to reserves anyway, capital spending is a
magnified mirror
image of profits, and profit margins remain firmly under pressure.
As such, they are themselves perhaps expressive
of a longing for a way out
of the self - deception sacralized by God -
images that merely reflect or
magnify our limiting systems
of heroics.
This past week, Roger and I marked the 15th anniversary
of our engagement (click all
images to
magnify).
Gary Greenberg, a research affiliate at the University
of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, took this 3 - D stereo
image (cross your eyes slightly until there are three
images, then focus on the center)
of a single grain
of moon sand (
magnified here about 300 times).
Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one
of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters
of closer galaxies [see
image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and
magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.
They find that a spinning naked singularity turns out to be a strong gravitational lens,
magnifying the light from background stars more than an ordinary black hole and producing a distinctive pattern
of images.
Such use
of computers to enhance the quality
of low - resolution
images is familiar to fans
of CSI and other TV police procedurals, where law enforcement lab technicians often crack a case by
magnifying some small detail
of a digital
image pulled from grainy surveillance footage.
Truly up close and personal, Frankel's highly
magnified images include colourful colonies
of bacteria and plastic films.
However, through the phenomenon known as «gravitational lensing,» a massive, foreground cluster
of galaxies acts as a natural «zoom lens» in space by
magnifying and stretching
images of far more distant background galaxies.
On his computer he brings up an
image,
magnified 200,000 times,
of the creature: a bug - eyed, hexagonal smurf with a head
of electrified hair.
This
image of Abell 2744 is the first to come from Hubble's Frontier Fields observing programme, which is using the
magnifying power
of enormous galaxy clusters to peer deep into the distant Universe.
A certain class
of supernovae always explodes with the same brightness (giving them the nickname «standard candles»), so by measuring how bright they appear in the
images, astronomers can tell how much their light has been
magnified.
Working in conjunction with the cornea, the effect
of the telescope is to
magnify images in front
of the eye roughly 2.2 to 2.7 times their normal size.
The latest version
of the $ 1.5 million device lets doctors work while seated, viewing a
magnified 3 - D
image of the procedure they're performing and precisely manipulating up to four robotic arms — one with an endoscopic camera and three that handle special surgical tools.
At the Siggraph Asia conference this week, MIT researchers presented a pair
of papers describing techniques for either
magnifying or smoothing out small variations in digital
images.
To test this concept, the astronomers compared the three
magnified images with the locations
of several other multiply
imaged objects lensed by Abell 2744 that are not as far behind the cluster.
«As we were searching for distant galaxies
magnified by Abell 2218, we detected a pair
of strikingly similar
images whose arrangement and color indicate a very distant object,» explains lead author Jean - Paul Kneib
of the California Institute
of Technology.
Similarly, what's seen at the focus
of any telescope when the
image of a star is
magnified enough is the sum
of the Airy patterns corresponding to all colors in the starlight.
First predicted by Albert Einstein, this effect is similar to a glass lens bending light to
magnify and distort the
image of an object behind it.
To illustrate the discovery for me, Roy called up an
image of a
magnified brain slice in the lab.
Her job was to take each plate, mount it on a device which illuminated it from behind and, with the aid
of a
magnifying eyepiece, carefully measure the sizes
of the black dots representing each star on the negative
image.
NASA said the background galaxy has been
magnified, distorted and multiply
imaged by the gravity
of the galaxy cluster in a process known as gravitational lensing.
As it moves, the gravity
of the galaxy cluster distorts the light
of the Whirlpool, warping and
magnifying and even multiplying its
image.
The distant galaxies in these
images are most typically
magnified by factors
of between 2 and 10.
In fact, the galaxy cluster's gravity had bent space - time to
magnify the star's
image, a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where an object
magnifies the light
of objects directly behind it.
Neurite length was calculated using the following formula; NL = α × T × (π / 2), where α is the number
of times the neurite intersects the grid lines and T is the distance between the gridlines on the
magnified image (taking into account the magnification factor) or was calculated using ImageJ analysis software.
The ultra-deep
images of galaxy clusters are revealing the faintest galaxies ever studied,
magnified by gravitational lensing.
The four
images of the same supernova result from the way light from distant objects is not just
magnified but bent by the immense mass
of the galaxy cluster.
Magnified images may be compared against computer databases to identify tiny pieces
of fibers or other material.